Simon Rex attends the “Red Rocket” screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on Jin Cannes, France. The film doesn’t boast big names but expect Rex, an actor, and former MTV VJ, to receive plenty of acclaim for a star-making role that could spark a career renaissance. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)ĭirector Sean Baker makes his Cannes Film Festival debut with Red Rocket, which will be released in the US through A24, the home of another recent film about a fast-talking loser, Uncut Gems. Us director Sean Baker, Us actress Bree Elrod and Us actor Simon Rex arrive for the screening of the film “Red Rocket” at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 14, 2021.
Rex appeared in a solo male pornographic film, giving a meta-layer quality to his work in Red Rocket. Mikey’s career in LA has gone south, chiefly because he had regular work in the spoof sex franchise The Fast and Fury Ass – but as the porn version of the character played by Paul Walker, whose death put a catastrophic downer on Mikey’s career.
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“As soon as it was done, it was kind of like, ‘All right, back to the pandemic and sitting in the desert, and I’ll believe it when I see it when this movie comes out.’ Like, ‘Did that really just even happen?’ The whole thing was crazy, and I’ve had my heart broken in this business so many times.” But sure enough, as the pandemic somewhat subsided, Red Rocket was invited to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it began amassing rave reviews, especially for its leading man.Actor, rapper, comedian, and one-time porn performer Simon Rex gives an amusing performance in Red Rocket as a washed-up adult movie actor dealing with a career downturn. It was unclear if the film would ever even see the light of days. “I just tried to make him boyish and charming and maybe he doesn’t know what he’s doing,” the actor says. There, in August and September 2020, with a 10-person crew, a $1 million budget, no rehearsal time and mostly non-actors shooting on 16mm, they told the story of a transactional “sociopathic narcissist” with “big dick energy,” as Rex describes Mikey Saber, who you can’t help but like. The Tangerine and Florida Project helmer asked Rex to put himself on tape, not loop in his agent or manager and drive directly to Texas within three days. Indeed, “It had been years since I really had people calling for auditions.” “It was me sort of taking a step out of Hollywood a little bit,” he reflected, “not quite quitting,” but beginning to entertain the possibility. Last summer, during some of the darkest days of the global pandemic, Rex was “staring at the ceiling fan” in a small home he had recently bought in Joshua Tree National Park, a two-hour drive from Los Angeles. Molly Shannon Reflects on Double Duty Roles in 'The White Lotus' and 'The Other Two', Teases Memoir “But Sean Baker saw it, and that’s all that matters.” “I don’t think anyone saw this coming, myself included,” he acknowledged. Neither those parts nor any others would have suggested that he had within him the sort of nuanced performance that he gives in Red Rocket. In terms of acting, the 47-year-old, who has also worked as a male model, an MTV VJ and a rapper, was heretofore best known for his work in three installments of the Scary Movie franchise. “I guess I was always insecure about it until this movie, which I’m so proud of.” Rex plays a has-been porn star who returns to his hometown, and has been garnering best actor Oscar buzz. “I never considered myself an actor,” Simon Rex told The Hollywood Reporter during a conversation in front of an audience of Savannah Film Festival attendees this week following a packed Lucas Theatre screening of Sean Baker‘s Red Rocket.
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